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Hi,

Quick question: Is it possible to tell Bacula to do an "update slots" automatically whenever it has to mount a new tape from the autochanger?


Why:  Some times bacula requests tapes that are not in the changer during a job. The manual procedure is to 


- Unmount/release (not quite needed, as it is already unmounted by then)
- Remove/insert new labeled tapes
- Update slots 
- Let Bacula do the mounting on next try, ou mount manually.


I want to just load/unload tapes on the changer upon request, and let bacula do the rest, so I need bacula to do an "update slots" every time it mounts a tape, while in the middle of a job.


Pre job scripts won't do it, as this happens inside a job.


Any ideias?


Thanks!

2012/1/16 Miguel Afonso <mafonso < at > gmail.com>:
Hi,

Quick question: Is it possible to tell Bacula to do an "update
slots" automatically whenever it has to mount a new tape from the
autochanger?

Why:  Some times bacula requests tapes that are not in the changer during a
job. The manual procedure is to

- Unmount/release (not quite needed, as it is already unmounted by then)
- Remove/insert new labeled tapes
- Update slots
- Let Bacula do the mounting on next try, ou mount manually.

I want to just load/unload tapes on the changer upon request, and let bacula
do the rest, so I need bacula to do an "update slots" every time it mounts a
tape, while in the middle of a job.

Pre job scripts won't do it, as this happens inside a job.

Any ideias?

How would bacula know you changed the tape in the archive unless you
told it to update slots? I guess you can run a job that issues an
update slots every 5 minutes but that would be wasteful and could get
you into trouble if the autochanger was initializing.

John

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If the command was issued before the mount command, which in turn triggers the Autochanger change script,
that would not be a problem. Either there would be no change to the slots, or the newly inserted tapes would be identified as being on the changer.


When bacula can't find a tape in the changer (slot=0) with sends an email (once an hour?) requesting manual intervention. 
I was hopping it could be done via a script called before the email bacula sends this email. 


I believe it was just a matter of trying a last resort update before requesting manual assistance.


I thought of the crontab solution as well, but I'm afraid it can cause some unexpected disruption. But I might try it if can't find a cleaner way of doing it. 


Miguel


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:12 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm < at > gmail.com ([email]drescherjm < at > gmail.com[/email])> wrote:



How would bacula know you changed the tape in the archive unless you
told it to update slots? I guess you can run a job that issues an
update slots every 5 minutes but that would be wasteful and could get
you into trouble if the autochanger was initializing.

John